ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volumes 1 and 2 by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES - Volumes 1 and 2

by Kurnosova, L. V. (ed)

New York, 1960: Plenum Press, Inc., 227 pages, $9.50

This is a so-called double volume book, containing the revised texts of reports presented at the Fifth Assembly of the Special IGY Committee, Moscow, 1958. Volume 1 presents data obtained from Sputniks 1 and 2, and Volume 2 is concerned with Sputnik 3, including the bioastronautical results of the dog experiment.


Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III